The idea is to give more info about the sensor/channel when calling with API

June 30, 20141:06 pm

lee

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Hi,

We just added a new Channel property for you, called "metadata". You can set it on the Channel settings page, and it can store an unlimited amount of JSON/XML or any other data. If you want to include the metadata when getting the Channel feeds, just add "metadata=true". Please see https://thingspeak.com/docs/channels#get_feed for further documentation.

lee

July 1, 20144:59 am

DodBasim

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Thank you very much for doing this.
Once again, you showed how flexible and responsive you are.

Keep up the good work

July 1, 20144:21 pm

DodBasim

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One more thing...
Do you think you will be able to add the option to update this field via HTTP POST call?

One more thing 2...
Any plans to add a global Status field to the channel that will be accessible via HTTP POST/GET?

Please use the newly added "metadata" field for status requests. For example, you can store JSON metadata info as
{ "status": "online", "otherinfo", "etc." }
and then parse out the status from the response.